The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... our sensations and hopes and fears . They will reveal and embody in themselves all the traits of our complex nature . Art is that lovely corporeal body with which man endowers the spirit of goodness X THE PURPOSE OF POETRY .
... our sensations and hopes and fears . They will reveal and embody in themselves all the traits of our complex nature . Art is that lovely corporeal body with which man endowers the spirit of goodness X THE PURPOSE OF POETRY .
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... fear that we ourselves are living in just such a time . Fine arts may be patronized even liber- ally , but you could not say they have any hold on us as a people ; we have no wide feelings for them , no profound conviction of their ...
... fear that we ourselves are living in just such a time . Fine arts may be patronized even liber- ally , but you could not say they have any hold on us as a people ; we have no wide feelings for them , no profound conviction of their ...
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... fear of evil . Particularly they arouse genuine feeling in you about the rare new things you have never seen . Hence they fill you with expectation and make you wish to know more and more of life . But , just as much , they make you ...
... fear of evil . Particularly they arouse genuine feeling in you about the rare new things you have never seen . Hence they fill you with expectation and make you wish to know more and more of life . But , just as much , they make you ...
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... fear . Shut , little sleepy blue eyes ; Dear little head , be at rest ; Jesus , like you , Was a baby once , too , And slept on his own mother's breast . Sleep , little baby of mine , Soft on your pillow so white ; Jesus is here To ...
... fear . Shut , little sleepy blue eyes ; Dear little head , be at rest ; Jesus , like you , Was a baby once , too , And slept on his own mother's breast . Sleep , little baby of mine , Soft on your pillow so white ; Jesus is here To ...
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... fears , Our little nephew will lose two years ; And he'll never know Where the summers go ; — He need not laugh , for he ' ll find it so ! Who can tell what a baby thinks ? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels ...
... fears , Our little nephew will lose two years ; And he'll never know Where the summers go ; — He need not laugh , for he ' ll find it so ! Who can tell what a baby thinks ? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels ...
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